Meena Alexander
Meena Alexander is Stylist magazine’s features editor.
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Books
Amanda Gorman exclusive: the poet and activist on a life-changing year
She began 2021 performing for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and ends it with the release of her new poetry book. Amanda Gorman is only just getting started...
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Podcasts
Munroe Bergdorf exclusive: the model and activist on turning trauma into triumph
“We can all do our bit to make this world a little easier for the people who come next.”
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Wellbeing
“For lots of us, lockdown has been a time of sexual self-discovery”
Sex recession? What sex recession?
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Entertainment
Anita Rani: “Asian women aren’t seen as multi-dimensional”
The Woman’s Hour presenter on role models, representation and outrageous women.
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Shot during lockdown, Zendaya’s new Netflix film proves less is more
Two people, one house, a whole lot of drama.
Music
Meet the women powering Africa’s musical revolution
The continent’s creatives are finally starting to take up the space they deserve.
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Celebrity
Small Axe star Amarah-Jae St Aubyn: “Filming Lovers Rock felt like coming back to myself”
The Steve McQueen film is an ode to Black joy.
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TV
Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock proves joy is a radical act
This week’s Small Axe film is essential viewing.
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TV
“How the killing of my childhood friend shaped the woman I’ve become”
Yinka Bokinni on the lasting impact of Damilola Taylor’s death.
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TV
In High Fidelity, Zoë Kravitz gives us a badly behaved heroine for our times
No saccharine romcom clichés here.
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Beauty
How to build a satisfyingly decadent body care routine
Because skincare shouldn't stop at your collarbones.
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10 of the loveliest period dramas to escape into now
Let’s return to a simpler time, shall we?
Books
The Toni Morrison novels everyone should read, from The Bluest Eye to Beloved
She won a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize for a reason, friends
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Life
The Photograph is exactly the kind of romantic escapism we need right now
Relationships, regret and a hell of a lot of beautiful, well-dressed people.
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People
“I was definitely not a happy kid. I wrote songs to tell people the things I couldn’t say”
Singer Emma McGrath on the healing power of music.
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Life
Queen & Slim is a huge home-truth of a film that’s bursting with beauty
And we have two talented black women to thank for it.
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People
“The music industry needs its #MeToo moment”
If you don’t know singer ALA.NI, it’s about time you did.
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Life
So, is Sex Education’s second season as good as the first?
With storylines on everything from pansexuality to dirty talk to douching, the gang’s all here.
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The science of boredom: when did we lose the ability to be bored?
“There’s rarely a moment when our brains are not subject to some form of external stimulus.”
People
Sex Education’s Emma Mackey talks real-world sex, consent and Prince Andrew
“Men like him are part of a generation who have inherited archaic ways of being and thinking… but that’s not an excuse anymore.”
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